Deaths in September 2007

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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2007.

30

• Taylor Bradford, 21, American college football player, shot. [1]
• Al Chang, 85, American two-time Pulitzer prize-nominated military photographer, leukemia. [2]
• John Henebry, 89, American Air Force major general, heart failure. [3]
• Milan Jelić, 51, Bosnian politician, president of Republika Srpska entity (2006–2007), heart attack. [4]
• Liu Chung-tz'u, 66, Taiwanese inventor of Boshiamy method, lung cancer. [5] (Chinese)
• Andres Lutsar, 60, Estonian judo coach. [6] (Estonian)
• Joe Mitty, 88, British founder of the Oxfam charity shop. [7]
• David Ohanesian, 80, Romanian baritone. [8]
• Eugene Saenger, 90, American radiologist and university professor. [9]
• Oswald Mathias Ungers, 81, German architect, pneumonia. [10]

29

• Lois Maxwell, 80, Canadian Golden Globe-winning actress, first Miss Moneypenny in James Bond film series, colorectal cancer. [11]
• Katsuko Saruhashi, 87, Japanese scientist, pneumonia. [12]
• Gyula Zsivótzky, 70, Hungarian hammer thrower, 1968 Olympics gold medallist, cancer. [13]

28

• René Desmaison, 77, French mountaineer. [14] (French)
• Charles B. Griffith, 77, American screenwriter. [15]
• Adam Kozłowiecki, 96, Polish-born Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lusaka (1955–1969). [16]
• Peter Kuiper, 78, Dutch-born German actor. [17] (German)
• Martin Manulis, 92, American Emmy Award-winning television and film producer. [18]
• Wally Parks, 94, American drag racing and hot rod pioneer, pneumonia. [19]
• David Schmidt, 47, American dealer in celebrity memorabilia, apparent suicide. [20]
• Derek Shackleton, 83, British cricketer for Hampshire and England. [21]
• Hamid Shirzadeghan, 66, Iranian footballer, lung cancer. [22] [23]

27

• Nenad Bogdanović, 53, Serbian politician, mayor of Belgrade (2004–2007), lymphoma. [24]
• Bo Hjalmar Brekke, 50, Norwegian head of The Salvation Army in Pakistan, shot. [25]
• Dale Houston, 67, American musician (Dale and Grace). [26]
• Kenji Nagai, 50, Japanese video journalist, shot. [27]
• Bill Perry, 77, South African-born English footballer, cancer. [28]
• Rena Rago, 85, American artist, stroke complications. [29]
• Marjatta Raita, 63, Finnish actress, cancer. [30] (Finnish)
• George Rieveschl, 91, American inventor of Benadryl, pneumonia. [31]
• Darcy Robinson, 26, Canadian ice hockey player for Asiago. [32]
• Israel Segal, 63, Israeli writer and journalist, heart failure. [33]
• Avraham Shapira, 93, Israeli Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel (1983–1993). [34]

26

• Stanislav Andreski, 88, Polish sociologist. [35]
• Robert Bruss, 67, American real estate attorney and columnist, cancer. [36]
• Velma Wayne Dawson, 94, American creator of the Howdy Doody puppet. [37]
• Jim Kraakevik, 79, American atmospheric physicist, heart failure. [38]
• Angela Lambert, 67, British journalist, historian and novelist. [39]
• Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, 90, Dutch secret agent, author and businessman. [40]
• Randy Van Horne, 83, American singer of TV theme songs (The Flintstones, The Jetsons), cancer. [41]
• Bill Wirtz, 77, American owner of the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks, cancer. [42]

25

• Haidar Abdel-Shafi, 88, Palestinian negotiator, stomach cancer. [43]
• Patrick Bourque, 29, Canadian bass guitarist (Emerson Drive), suicide. [44]
• Andre Emmerich, 82, American art dealer, complications of a stroke. [45]
• Jana Krishnamurthi, 79, Indian President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (2001–2007). [46]

24

• Geoff Cannell, 65, Manx Member of the House of Keys and sports broadcaster, stroke. [47]
• Terry Connolly, 49, Australian judge of the ACT Supreme Court, heart attack. [48]
• Paul Crowley, 57, American Rhode Island state representative, melanoma. [49]
• Kurt Julius Goldstein, 92, German journalist and Auschwitz survivor. [50]
• André Gorz, 84, Austrian-born French social philosopher, suicide. [51]
• Frank Hyde, 91, Australian rugby league player and commentator. [52]
• Hiroshi Osaka, 44, Japanese co-founder of Bones Animation Studio, cancer. [53]
• Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, 88, American physicist and former director of SLAC, heart attack. [54]
• Natalya Pivovarova, 44, Russian singer (Kolibri), car accident. [55]
• Otto Spacek, 89, Czech World War II hero. [56]
• Lenore Tawney, 100, American fiber artist. [57]
• Comway Wickliffe, 41, New Zealand special effects technician, car accident. [58]

23

• Ken Danby, 67, Canadian painter. [59]
• Ivan Hinderaker, 91, American chancellor of the University of California, Riverside (1964–1979). [60]
• Gary Primich, 49, American blues musician. [61]

22

• Albert Fuller, 81, American harpsichordist and founder of the Aston Magna Foundation and Festival. [62] [63]
• Herbert Gallen, 92, American chairman and owner of Ellen Tracy sportswear. [64]
• Karl Hardman, 80, American horror film producer and actor. [65] [66]
• Richard Hornby, 85, British politician and businessman. [67]
• Kaljo Kiisk, 81, Estonian film director, actor and politician. [68] (Estonian)
• Marcel Marceau, 84, French mime artist. [69]
• William D. Rogers, 80, American advisor to Henry Kissinger, heart attack. [70]
• `Alí-Muhammad Varqá, 95, Iranian-born Baha'i leader. [71] [72]

21

• Hallgeir Brenden, 78, Norwegian cross country skier, gold medallist (1952 and 1956 Winter Olympics). [73] (Norwegian)
• Bob Collins, 61, Australian ALP senator (1987–1998) and minister (1990–1996). [74] [75]
• Alice Ghostley, 81, American Tony Award-winning actress, colon cancer. [76]
• Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, 81, British politician. [77]
• Rex Humbard, 88, American televangelist, congestive heart failure. [78]
• Petar Stambolić, 95, Serbian Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Serbia (1978–1982), President of Yugoslavia (1982–1983). [79]
• Coral Watts, 53, American serial killer, prostate cancer. [80]

20

• Mahlon Clark, 84, American clarinetist, natural causes. [81]
• Helen Freeman, 75, American endangered species (snow leopards) advocate, lung disease. [82]
• Johnny Gavin, 79, Irish international footballer and Norwich City's record goalscorer. [83]
• Myra Nicholson, 112, Australia's oldest person, 11th oldest in the world, bronchitis. [84]
• Viktor Shershunov, 56, Russian governor of Kostroma Oblast, car accident. [85] (Russian)
• Labah Sosseh, 64, Senegalese singer. [86] (French).

19

• Bassem Hamad al-Dawiri, 34, Iraqi sculptor, replaced Saddam Hussein statue toppled during 2003 invasion of Iraq, car accident. [87]
• Antoine Ghanem, 64, Lebanese Member of Parliament (Kataeb Party), car bomb. [88]
• Mike Osborne, 66, British jazz musician. [89] (German)
• Vlatko Pavletić, 76, Croatian politician, Speaker of Parliament (1995–1999), acting President (1999–2000). [90]
• Maia Simon, 67, French film actress, assisted suicide. [91]
• H. Emory Widener, Jr., 83, American senior judge on the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, lung cancer. [92]

18

• Augustus Akinloye, 91, Nigerian politician who helped form the Ibadan Peoples Party. [93]
• Benyamin Yosef Bria, 51, Indonesian Bishop of Denpasar. [94]
• Sallie Brophy, 78, American film and television actress and theater director, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. [95]
• Norman Gaylord, 84, American chemist, developed permeable contact lens. [96]
• Nate Hill, 41, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Miami Dolphins, Washington Redskins). [97]
• Pepsi Tate, 42, British bassist (Tigertailz), pancreatic cancer. [98]
• Len Thompson, 60, Australian footballer (1965–1980), heart attack. [99]

17

• Arvo Alas, 64, Estonian translator and diplomat. [100] (Estonian)

16

• Peter Cleeland, 69, Australian Labor MHR for McEwen (1984–1990, 1993–1996). [101]
• Robert Jordan, 58, American fantasy novelist (The Wheel of Time), cardiac amyloidosis. [102] [103]
• Calvin L. Rampton, 93, American governor of Utah (1965–1977), cancer. [104]
• Garrard "Buster" Ramsey, 87, American football player and coach, pneumonia. [105]

15

• Marie-Simone Capony, 113, French doyenne and fifth oldest person in the world, heart failure. [106]
• Colin McRae, 39, British World Rally champion, helicopter crash. [107] [108]
• Sir Jeremy Moore, 79, British soldier, commander of UK land forces in the Falklands War. [109]
• Specs Powell, 85, American jazz drummer, kidney disease. [110]
• Ernie Renzel, 100, American politician, Mayor of San Jose (1945-1946), "Father of San Jose International Airport." [111]
• Aldemaro Romero, 79, Venezuelan composer, pianist and conductor, complications of intestinal blockage. [112]
• Brett Somers, 83, American actress, comedienne and panelist (Match Game), stomach and colon cancer. [113]

14

• Jacques Martin, 74, French presenter and former husband of Cécilia Sarkozy, cancer. [114]
• Emilio Ruiz del Rio, 84, Spanish set decorator (Pan's Labyrinth), respiratory failure. [115]
• Benny Vansteelant, 30, Belgian world champion duathlete, bike accident. [116]

13

• Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, 37, Iraqi leader of Anbar Salvation Council, improvised explosive device. [117]
• Gaetano Arfé, 81, Italian politician. [118] (Italian)
• Laurel Burch, 61, American artist, osteopetrosis. [119]
• Phil Frank, 64, American cartoonist, brain tumor. [120]
• Bill Griffiths, 59, British poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar. [121]
• Augie Hiebert, 90, American who built Alaska's first television station (KTVA), cancer. [122]
• Neville Jeffress, 87, Australian founder of Media Monitors Australia, pneumonia. [123]
• Clare Oliver, 26, Australian cancer activist, melanoma. [124]
• Abdul Sattar Buzaigh al-Rishawi, 35, Iraqi leader of the Anbar Salvation Council, bomb. [125]
• Whakahuihui Vercoe, 79, New Zealand retired Anglican Archbishop. [126]

12

• Gerlind Ahnert, 73, German film actress and TV host. [127]
• Bobby Byrd, 73, American soul/funk singer, long-time friend and collaborator of James Brown, cancer. [128]
• Daryl Holton, 55, American murderer, first man executed by electric chair in Tennessee in 47 years. [129]
• Gordon Sloan, 34, New Zealand-Australian 2001 Big Brother contestant, alleged heroin overdose. [130]

11

• John Garrett, 76, British politician, Labour Party Member of Parliament for Norwich South 1974–1983 and 1987–1997. [131]
• Ian Porterfield, 61, British football player and manager (scored Sunderland's 1973 FA Cup winner), colon cancer. [132] [133]
• Gene Savoy, 80, American explorer, claimed discovery of over 40 lost cities in Peru, founder of religion, natural causes. [134] [135]
• Willie Tee, 63, American singer, songwriter and producer, colon cancer. [136]
• Joe Zawinul, 75, Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer, founder of Weather Report, cancer. [137] [138]

10

• Loretta King Hadler, 90, American actress (Bride of the Monster), natural causes. [139]
• James Leasor, 83, British novelist and biographer. [140]
• Skedge Miller, 93, American actor (Hallmark Hall of Fame, Saturday Night Live), Alzheimer's disease. [141]
• Lord Michael Pratt, 61, British aristocrat and writer. [142]
• Dame Anita Roddick, 64, British entrepreneur and founder of The Body Shop, brain haemorrhage. [143]
• Arthur Ross, 96, American businessman and philanthropist known for his contribution to Central Park. [144]
• Joe Sherlock, 76, Irish Teachta Dála for Cork East (1981–1982, 1987–1992, 2002–2007). [145]
• Ted Stepien, 82, American businessman and former owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team. [146]
• Enrique Torres, 85, American professional wrestler. [147]
• Jane Wyman, 90, American Academy Award-winning actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan. [148] [149]

9

• Ian Campbell, 81, British politician, Labour MP for Dunbartonshire West (1970-1983) and Dumbarton (1983-1987). [150]
• Belinda Dann, 107, Indigenous Australian longest lived member of the Stolen Generation who was taken away at the age of 6, dies just months after she was reunited with her family.Stolen generation member dies just months after reunion
• Han Dingxiang, 71, Chinese Roman Catholic archbishop detained for loyalty to the Vatican. [151]
• Helmut Senekowitsch, 73, Austrian football player and manager. [152]
• Hughie Thomasson, 55, American guitarist (The Outlaws), heart attack. [153]
• Sir Tasker Watkins VC, 88, British Second World War veteran, Lord Justice of Appeal, former WRU President, after short illness. [154]
• Xu Simin, 93, Hong Kong Beijing loyalist and magazine publisher, organ failure. [155]

8

• Lord Bethell, 69, British historian of Eastern and Central Europe, human rights campaigner, Parkinson's disease. [156]
• Jean-François Bizot, 63, French journalist, creator of Actuel, Radio Nova (France), cancer. [157] (French)
• Adrian Esquino Lisco, 68, El Salvadoran indigenous rights activist and spiritual chief, complications from diabetes. [158]
• Vincent Serventy, 91, Australian writer and conservationist. [159]

7

• Alex, 31, American-born African grey parrot, subject of animal language experiments. [160]
• Sir John Compton, 82, St. Lucian Prime Minister (1979, 1982–1996, 2006–2007), stroke. [161]
• Norman Deeley, 73, British footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers). [162]
• Russell E. Dougherty, 87, American former commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command. [163]
• Joseph W. Eschbach, 74, American doctor and kidney specialist whose research lead to treatment for anemia, cancer. [164]
• Joseph Rudolph Grimes, 84, Liberian foreign minister (1960–1972). [165]
• Gabriel Baccus Matthews, 59, Liberian foreign minister (1980–1981, 1990–1993). [166]
• Mark Weil, 55, Uzbek theatre director, stabbed. [167] [168]

6

• Martin Čech, 31, Czech international ice hockey player, car accident. [169] (Czech) [170] (Russian)
• Eva Crane, 95, British bee expert. [171] [172]
• Allan Crite, 97, American artist, natural causes. [173]
• Billy Darnell, 81, American professional wrestler of the 1940s–1960s famous for feuds with Buddy Rogers. [174]
• John Kelly, 71, British advocate of Irish republicanism, PIRA founder member, Northern Ireland Assembly member (1998–2003). [175]
• Madeleine L'Engle, 88, American writer (A Wrinkle in Time), natural causes. [176]
• Ronald Magill, 87, British actor (Amos Brearly on Emmerdale Farm). [177] [178]
• Luciano Pavarotti, 71, Italian operatic tenor, pancreatic cancer. [179]
• Percy Rodriguez, 89, Canadian character actor and movie trailer narrator, kidney problems. [180]
• Byron Stevenson, 50, British footballer (Wales, Leeds United, Birmingham City), throat cancer. [181]

5

• Julieta Campos, 75, Cuban-Mexican writer, cancer. [182]
• Duan Yihe, 61, Chinese congress member who arranged the murder of his mistress, execution. [183]
• Jennifer Dunn, 66, American Representative from Washington (1993–2005), pulmonary embolism. [184]
• Paul Gillmor, 68, American Representative from Ohio since 1989. [185]
• Edward Gramlich, 68, American economics professor, governor of the Federal Reserve System, lymphocytic leukemia. [186]
• Thomas Hansen, 31, Norwegian musician known as "Saint Thomas", combination of prescribed drugs. [187] (Norwegian)
• D. James Kennedy, 76, American theologian, founder of Coral Ridge Ministries. [188]
• Nikos Nikolaidis, 68, Greek film director, pulmonary edema. [189] (Greek)

4

• Michael Evans, 87, American stage and television actor. [190]
• Gigi Sabani, 54, Italian TV host, heart attack. [191] (Italian)
• John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, 83, British politician, Scottish peer, Europe's largest private landowner. [192] [193]
• Ryūzō Sejima, 95, Japanese chairman of the board of Asia University, World War II strategist. [194]
• Seth Tobias, 44, American financial commentator for CNBC's Squawk Box. [195]

3

• Carter Albrecht, 34, American keyboardist, guitarist (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians), shot. [196]
• Clarke Bynum, 45, American basketball player (Clemson Tigers) and 2000 hijack hero, cancer. [197]
• Gustavo Eberto, 24, Argentine football goalkeeper for Boca Juniors, testicular cancer. [198]
• Syd Jackson, 68, New Zealand Māori rights activist, cancer. [199]
• Gift Leremi, 22, South African international football player, car accident. [200]
• Janis Martin, 67, American singer, cancer. [201]
• Steve Ryan, 60, American theater and television actor. [202]
• Mária Szepes, 98, Hungarian writer. [203] (Hungarian)
• Jane Tomlinson, 43, British cancer campaigner, cancer. [204] [205]

2

• Rajae Belmlih, 45, Moroccan singer, cancer. [206]
• Anthony Day, 74, American editorial page editor for the Los Angeles Times, emphysema. [207]
• Robert Fidgeon, 65, Australian television columnist and critic, cancer. [208]
• Safet Isović, 71, Bosnian singer. [209] (Bosnian)
• Marcia Mae Jones, 83, American actress (Heidi, These Three). [210]
• Max McNab, 83, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and NHL general manager. [211]

1

• Tomás Medina Caracas, 42, Colombian guerrilla member of FARC, military action. [212]
• Russell Ellington, 69, American basketball coach for the Harlem Globetrotters, lung cancer. [213]
• Sally Haley, 99, American painter, natural causes. [214]
• Sir Roy McKenzie, 84, New Zealand philanthropist, harness racing breeder, trainer and competitor. [215] [216]
• Viliam Schrojf, 76, Slovakian former football goalkeeper. [217]